Inferential Statistics Coursera

Overview

Skills You Will Gain with Inferential Statistics course is offered by Coursera in partnership with University of Amsterdam:

• Probability & Statistics

• General Statistics

• Regression

• Statistical Programming

• Experiment

Key facts

• Inferential statistics are concerned with making inferences based on relations found in the sample, to relations in the population. Inferential statistics help us decide, for example, whether the differences between groups that we see in our data are strong enough to provide support for our hypothesis that group differences exist in general, in the entire population.

• We will start by considering the basic principles of significance testing: the sampling and test statistic distribution, p-value, significance level, power and type I and type II errors. 

• Then we will consider a large number of statistical tests and techniques that help us make inferences for different types of data and different types of research designs. 

• For each individual statistical test we will consider how it works, for what data and design it is appropriate and how results should be interpreted. You will also learn how to perform these tests using freely available software.